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About

The two day conference is dedicated to everything related to FOSS governance and open collaboration. The sixth edition of FOSS Backstage will take place as a hybrid conference both online and in Berlin at our venue bUm. Talk will be streamed live and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.

FOSS Backstage provides a space to discuss a broad spectrum of issues related to community management, vendor neutrality and leading projects without discretionary power. Conference topics will include open source project leadership best practices, community management, open source project metrics, open source strategy for enterprise, adopting open source collaboration in corporations, legal matters when dealing with open source and many more.

With a focus on decentralised decision making and open collaboration FOSS Backstage will be a great place for: developers, architects, sysadmins, community leaders, students and anyone interested in building and managing communities within the open source space, to get together and exchange ideas.

Community, Management, and Compliance

What makes an open source project flourish? We want to encourage more discourse about the non-coding aspects of successful open source projects.

Impressions from 2023

Team & Founders

Stefan Rudnitzki

Co-Founder

Head of DevOps Engineering at Universal Music Germany. Co-organizer of MongoDB usergroup Berlin and Async Cat Herding meetup Berlin. 
Isabel Drost-Fromm

Co-Founder

Open Source Strategist at Europace AG, Member and former Director of the Apache Software Foundation, founder and PMC member of Apache Mahout

Alexander Brăteanu

Project Lead

Project Manager at Plain Schwarz

Sven Spiller

Project Manager

Project Manager at Plain Schwarz

Anne Sophie Riege
Anne Sophie Riege

Project Manager

Project Manager at Plain Schwarz

Paul Berschick

Partner Manager

Designated Managing Director at Plain Schwarz

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